Tablet’s Top Ten Stories of 2020

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 3, 2021January 3, 2021 History

Click Here to Read: Tablet’s Top Ten Stories of 2020 on the Tablet website on January 3, 2021.
Circular route shield Image: Fredddie Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Archaeologists Find Evidence That a Massive Tsunami Hit Ancient Levantine Coast

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 30, 2020December 30, 2020 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Archaeologists Find Evidence That a Massive Tsunami Hit Ancient Levantine Coast by Isaac Schultz
on the Gizmodo website on December 23, 2020.
Tel Dor, on the Mediterranean coast. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel.

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 28, 2020December 28, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Hijacking History: Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel. Eerily, their story is relevant again—this time, for American Jews by Izabella Tabarovsky on the Tablet website on December 24, 2020.
Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

FDR, the Nazis, and the Jews of Morocco

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 19, 2020December 19, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: FDR, the Nazis, and the Jews of Morocco: a Troubling Episode By Rafael Medoff on the Jewish Journal website on December 18, 2020.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill in Casablanca. Image: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The King of Warsaw

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 17, 2020December 17, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The King of Warsaw: Polish author Szczepan Twardoch’s newly translated gangster novel is a non-Jew’s view of the total absence of Jews—and the haunting effects of that absence on present-day Poland BY Dara Horn on the Tablet website on December 17, 2020.

Zionism and Bolshevism

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 17, 2020December 17, 2020 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Zionism and Bolshevism: In 1917, two answers to Russia’s ‘Jewish Question’ swept west and helped transform the world By Chimen Abramsky on the Tablet website on December 17, 2020.
Illustrated Sunday Herald article by Winston S. Churchill. Image: old Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Beethoven and Freedom

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Arts, History

Click Here to Read: Beethoven and Freedom: On the composer’s 250th birthday BY David P. Goldman on the Tablet website on December 15, 2020. Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis; Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler (1781–1858). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.